Cartagen
Jeffrey Warren wrote in to tell us about his Cartagen website which uses GSS – a specification for designing maps.
Jeffrey writes:
Adapted for dynamic data sources, GSS can define changing geographic elements, display multiple datasets, and even respond to contextual tags like “condition:poor”.
Instead of sending pre-rendered tiles for every zoom level, Cartagen draws maps dynamically on the client side. This means maps can move, adapt, and redraw, and can include as many layers of data as needed. Vector mapping is done in native HTML 5, which runs on the iPhone and the Android platforms, and uses less bandwidth overall.
Cartagen
Cartagen is a work in progress. The search button doesn’t seem to triggering an event, but entering in urls of place names seemed to do the trick. Here’s Manhatten and here’s London.
Works best in Firefox.
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